Get on St. Phillip’s Escalator, Rochester’s garage-busting rock trio
Frank De Blase
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Pentecostal Presley
This week Frank checks out The Quakes, The Broke Down, and Bug Jar Music Fest
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HEAVY TRASH
Jon Spencer’s voice slithers halfway between howl and croon; like the King baying at the moon. “They call me the loveless/I’m a mean sonofabitch,” he sings on “The Loveless,” a cut from his new colab with Matt Verta Ray (Speedball Baby, Madder Rose), Heavy Trash. Spencer’s a suave sonofabitch as well. He comes on greasy […]
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No stunts, no whining
This week Frank checks out Gil Mantera’s Party Dream Boulder Fest, Watermelon Slim, Buckcherry, and more.
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Harp and a halo
This week:
Frank hits The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Atomic Swindlers, and Burning 2
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Chicks with picks
You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what’s going to happen next, right? There’ll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and […]
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Ozzfest’s Lacuna Coil
Italian metal act offers something new in the face of Ozzy
and Co.
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Diaper dance
Frank checks
out Big Sandy, The Orange Barrels, The Lobster Quadrille, and Deadly Pillow
Fight
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Hip hop and hypocrisy
On Saturday, July 8, I stood in the Frontier Field outfield, one of the roughly 4,500 people making up the MusicFest crowd. The vibe was up; everyone was enthused. I was surrounded by children — little kids, 7 or 8 years old at best — having a great time, dancing and bobbing to the DJ […]
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Johnny Winter wonderland
Frank
checks out Winter, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Pete Yorn, and Margaret
Storms
